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James Dean leans on a bookshelf, a dreamy gaze cast over the expanse of the Back Door Bar.
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James Dean leans on a bookshelf, a dreamy gaze cast over the expanse of the Back Door Bar.
Fists fly in a blur of glove and motion. It’s practice night at B-town Boxing Club.
The Wonderlab Museum of Science, Technology and Health is crawling with ants.
Jes Franco stood on a stage at the Bishop Bar and clutched a microphone.
Two white flags hang from the porch at Boxcar Books.
Josh Zimmer stood against the wall, arms folded, and surveyed the crowds ?filling the Tap.
Pens danced across paper as Monroe County Council member Geoff McKim led a PowerPoint presentation about the intricacies of the county’s government Monday evening.
Jazz music filled the back room of Bear’s Place Thursday, just like it has every Thursday night for the past 26 years.
On May 30, 407 Bloomington High School South students and six members of their families will pack into the school’s gym for graduation. Normally, they could expect to be in Assembly Hall where their entire families could be present.
A man sits behind a microphone at a bar.
For those gathered in the shadowy bar at Scholar’s Inn Gourmet Cafe and Wine Bar Wednesday, it was 1962. Women wore furs, hats and long gloves. Some men wore ties and suits. One man wore a tuxedo and boutonnière.
By Lyndsay Jones
In a bittersweet exchange, the Monroe County Public Library trustees gathered to celebrate the retirement of Sara Laughlin and the library’s achievements last year.
By Lyndsay Jones
Nearly 200 miles from Kings Mills, Ohio, home of deceased transgender teen Leelah Alcorn, dozens of people crowded together last night in Rachel’s Café to give meaning to her death.
Emmy award-winning filmmaker Bennett Singer is adding a new flair to Bloomington’s upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations next week.
Tucked in the back of Boxcar Books, an eclectic group of volunteers shuffled around a room. Books, paper and pencils in hand, the group worked to determine the responsibilities of working for Pages to Prisoners.
Editor's note: This is the concluding installment of the Indiana Daily Student’s investigative series delving into sexual assault at IU. The first part of this series brought you into the gray zone — exploring the vast complexities when it comes to reporting these events and the experience of one woman as she attempted to bring her case through the legal system. In these final stories, we take you through the system at the University meant to protect its students. But is it working?
During the early 1980s, Fourth Street was merely a row of homes.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Packed into the Indiana Convention Center this weekend, gun enthusiasts wound their way around the National Rifle Association’s exhibition rooms. They handed books to Rick Santorum at a signing on Friday, learned how to cook big game and attended seminars on effective concealed carry methods.The stereotypical gun owner may be a middle-aged man, but the visitors to the convention weren’t just men.Chris Pollreiz is a sales representative from Reuger, a gun manufacturer. He stood behind a display of various-sized weapons. At one point, he picked up a wooden replica that was swirled with pink pigment and handed it to a father, who then handed it to his young daughter.“We do get a lot of family traffic,” Pollreiz said. “We are offering a new line (soon), targeting women and youth.”A 2011 Gallup poll showed that the number of women with guns are increasing: 43 percent of gun owners are female.George Lang works for Second Call Defense, a membership program that protects those who use their guns in self-defense. Depending on coverage, up to $250,000 can be given to a person for civil damages and accidental shooting protection.Lang said his daughter was the one who lit his passion for the Constitution and the second amendment.“Six years ago, I was a republican,” Lang said. “My daughter taught me libertarianism at age 12. Now she’s starting her own chapter of an NRA club at New York University.”Lang said he felt his daughter’s dedication was “gutsy.”Mike Grandt, another sales representative, said the diversity at the convention kept taking him by surprise.“I keep thinking they’re all old guys, but then I see kids,” Grandt said. “I mean the majority are white. But I saw a group of Hispanics, and eight or ten black guys yesterday.”The NRA also has another demographic to consider: youth. Women aren’t the only rising influx to the association’s numbers.The NRA is often attacked for its homogenous demographic of adult white males, but it is seeking to change that.In 2013, NRA News announced that Colin Noir – who is black – would be joining a speaker series aimed at presenting more people of color to the public.“Obama can’t be there (to protect me),” Noir said in a video on YouTube for the NRA. “Guy telling me to get rid of my guns when I need them the most, isn’t my friend, isn’t looking out for my best interests and doesn’t speak for me or the community that I’m part of.”But the majority of money for outreach isn’t spent on minorities. It’s spent on children.More than 65 percent of foundation grants are spent on youth programs, according to an article on thetruthaboutguns.com, a site run by gun enthusiasts.Programs such as shooting camps, firearm safety training and marksmanship lessons are all offered to youth. It makes sense – for an association to continue to exist, so must its members.A mother who did not wish to be identified watched as her daughter climbed into a camouflage-covered vehicle at the convention.“We brought her on purpose,” she said. “We’re getting her started early."